Jawfish Discoloration

[TinyFish]

I have a blue spot jawfish in my 50 gal lps / softies tank and he lives in this little rock hut we built him and he pokes his head out. Sometimes he gets discoloured on his underside in small patches which we thought was because of him scratching himself on the rocks but this time his entire underside has gone gray. We have a quarantine tank to work with fyi. other fish in the tank include 2 Anthias, chalk bass a couple clowns and a damsel who is relatively calm. As well as a small tang and a couple grammas.

 

[blaxsun]

Is he getting enough to eat?

 

[TinyFish]

Is he getting enough to eat?

Yep, we dose live brine shrimp, feed with frozen and soon to have copepods in the tank.

 

[Moronta12]

Yep, we dose live brine shrimp, feed with frozen and soon to have copepods in the tank.

Try to use Selcon (fish food vitamins) on the frozen and the live brine.... I'm 100% sure his problem is nutrition... I have the same fish, he got feed 3 times at day.

 

[blaxsun]

Try to use Selcon (fish food vitamins) on the frozen and the live brine.... I'm 100% sure his problem is nutrition... I have the same fish, he got feed 3 times at day.

Selcon is a good suggestion (something I use along with garlic and aminos).

 

[The Ginga Ninja]

Yep, we dose live brine shrimp, feed with frozen and soon to have copepods in the tank.

How often are you feeding him? He does look just a tad on the thinner side… some believe these guys need to be fed 2-3 times a day:

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